Nerd Nite ChCh #34
Event description
Are you ready to get nerdy!?
Think TED talks with beer. Discovery Channel meets Drunk History.
Be there AND be square!
Speakers
"Can Scammers Write Poetry?"
by Dr Stephen Fitchett
UN Secretary General António Guterres, FBI Director Kash Patel, Warren Buffett; Stephen has exchanged emails with some big names - or, at least, people who claim to be them. After months of replying to every scam email in his junk folder, he now has answers to all the questions you never had about email scammers, and perhaps even some you did. In this talk, he unmasks this clandestine world and all the unexpected twists and turns of his investigations.
Stephen is a software engineer who enjoys finding creative uses of technology to improve the world. He has a PhD in Human Computer Interaction from the University of Canterbury.
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"Swim Training Patterns"
by Dr. Christoph Bartneck
Swim training, like many other physical exercises, uses instructions to tell athletes what to do. In the case of swimming, variations are important since staring at tiles hardly keeps the swimmer mentally fit. Surprisingly, training instructions are a programming language, similar to what we use to control computers. This talk will dive into how natural, artificial and formal languages are used to communicate ideas and patterns. Find out what the ideal way to stack squares is, how to build a pyramid and how you can calculate what the most repetitive pop song is. Even better, you will find out how you can use these patterns to improve your training routine using numbers!
Dr. Christoph Bartneck is a professor of computer science and a competitive swimmer with several national records. He actively promotes Masters Para Swimming in his role as a para swimming coordinator. He is an experienced science communicator with an interest in the intersection of mathematics, engineering and psychology. He frequently gives public talks and lectures at the local, national and international levels. Dr. Bartneck is an accomplished author with hundreds of scientific articles and books to his name. His work has been featured in the New Scientist, Scientific American, Popular Science, Wired, New York Times, The Times, BBC, Huffington Post, Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Economist.
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"Maths"
by Rata Ingram
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